Cheques now represent just 1.2% of all non-cash transactions as Australians show a clear preference for electronic payment methods. Over the past 10 years, cheque use has declined by nearly 73% and the rate of decline is accelerating. Simultaneously, cash…

The Australian Payments Council is inviting organisations with an interest in payments to be part of its Challenge Design Workshop at the Spark Festival Sydney on Friday, 28 October 2016. The workshop will focus on designing a range of challenges…

October is Cybersecurity Awareness month and it kicked off with the launch of the Australian Government’s Stay Smart Online Week. Trish McGinness, Compliance Manager at APCA, spoke at the launch. With cybercriminals and fraudsters becoming more sophisticated and more determined…

This week we had an in depth discussion with Tim Yudin, Payments UK’s Director of Design and Delivery, on the future of payments and how the payments industry is adapting to the digital economy to meet user needs in the UK. Here…

The first in the new Next Generation Banknote series went into circulation today. This begs the $5 question: what role does cash play in our payments mix? Michele Bullock, Assistant Governor (Business Services) at the Reserve Bank of Australia and…